Hair-waving appliance



Get. 23, 1923 nmmw R. Bov

HAIR WAVING APPLIANCE Filed Oct. 17 1922 Patented @ct. 23,1923.

UNITED STATES retreat Ramon Boys, or new YORK, n. r.

HAIR-WAVIN'G APPLIANCE.

Application filed October 17, 1922. Serial No. 595,078.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

ject of the King of Spain, residing at New York city, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Haira ing Appliances, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a device for forming waves or curls in the human hair and has for its object the provision of a simple and inexpensive device which may be easily manipulated by any person so as to produce any desired wave or curl in the hair. The invention seeks to provide a device which may be easily engaged in the hair and which will be so constructed that the operation of fastening the device in the hair will set the hair so that it will acquire the desired wave. The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings and will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a view showing the manner of using my improved device;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device removed from the hair;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a transverse section on the line H of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail section of a portion of the upper hair-engaging member, the member being inverted.

My improved hair-waving device comprises two hair-engaging or clamping members l and 2 which are of a general troughlike form and may be constructed of any light sheet metal which is not apt to corrode. The lower or base member 1 is tapered toward one end, as shown at Fig. 3, whereby it may be readily slid under the hair and caused to engage the same while through the said member adjacent its tapered end is formed an opening 4, the purpose of which will presently appear. At the butt end of this base member 1, I secure to the underside thereof a leaf spring 5 which is curved upwardly over the member and has its upper end pivotally connected to the adjacent end of the upper member 2. The said upper member 2 is provided at its free end with a central downwardly projecting tongue 6 which is adapted to extend through the opening 4 of the base member and has a hooked extremity 7 adapted to engage under the said member,

as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3, whereby the two members will be locked in closed relation. The said upper member 2 is also provided with projections 8 on its under side which may be conveniently formed by striking up tongues from the body of the member whereby openings 9 will be simultaneously formed through the member. Near the free end of the member 2 is a cross pin 10 rigidly secured in the sides of the member near the edges of the same and serving as a connecting brace to prevent spreading of the said member and also serving as a handle to facilitate manipulation of the device. The base member may 'be provided upon its upper side edges at its butt end with lugs or cars 11 which serve as guards to prevent the hair becoming entangled with the pivotal connection between the upper member and the connecting spring and also serve as stops to prevent the device being pushed through the hair to an excessive degree.

In using the device, at least two devices must be employed and they are to be engaged in the hair in opposite directions, as shown in Fig. 1. To engage the device in the hair, the members are arranged in open position, as indicated by the upper dotted lines in Fig. 3, and the lower bas member 1 is then pushed through or under the hair so that the strands to be curled or waved will lie over the trough defined by the said member. The upper covering or clamping member 2 is then swung downwardly upon the hair and a slight forward push is exerted upon the cross pin 10 so that the said upper member will be moved long'tudinally of'the lower member until its 100 ing tongue 6 engages in the opening 1, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 3, whereupon thehair will be firmly clamped between the two members. It will be noted that the projections 8 extend toward the free end of the upper clamping member so that, when movement is imparted to the same longitudinally of the device, the hair will be moved along the device and will naturall assume an even distribution therein an will also be moved slightly out of the straight lines previousl occupied by it so that a wave or curl wil be formed therein. Another device is then engaged in the hair in the same manner but inserted in the opposite direction so that the portion'of the hair engaged by the second device will be carried in a direction reverse to that imparted to it by the first applied (16- vice so that a complete wave or curl will be formed. ,Moist ordry heat is then applied to the hair as the condition and quality of the hair may demand and this heat may be applied by simply laying a saturated heated cloth over the several devices whereby warm moisture may pass through the several openings 9 of the upper clampin member and circulate through the hair. t may be preferred to moisten the hair before the appli cation of the device and then apply dry heat. through the application of an air blast or through the use of an electric heater or any other means and it is to be understood that I do not restrict myself in any way as to the manner in which the heat may be applied.

My device is exceedingly simple and inexpensive and may be produced at a very low cost. It is easily manipulated and may be used by any one with entire success. It will be noted that the hair is clamped in a trough'like structure so that it will be waved or curled in lines extending toward and from the scalp as well as in planes approximately parallel with the scalp. The wave or curl thus imparted to the hair will remain for a long period and with each application of the device will becomemore fixed so that, after the device has been used a few times, the wave will be permanent.

Having thus described the invention,.what is claimed as new is:

1. A hair-waving device comprisingapair of co-operating members permanently connected at one end for free relative movement, one of said members having its free end tapered, and a locking device carried by the free end of the other member to engage the first-mentioned member adjacent but inwardly from the tapered end of the same.

2. A. hair-waving device comprising cooperating trough-like members, a resilient connection between the butt ends of said members, means for locking the members in closed relation, and "hair-engaging projections upon the upper member whereby the hair will be distributed upon movement of nausea said upper, member longitudinally of the lower member.

3. A hair-waving device comprising a pair of co-operating trough-like members, the lower member having stops at its butt end upon its upper edges to engage the hair and limit insertion of the member in the body of hair and the upper member being connected with the lower member for relative pivotal and lon 'tudinal movement and constructed D toenmember being mounted for movement longitudinally of ,the lower member, hair-engaging projections upon the under side of the upper member, said member having openings therethrough, and. means for lockin the members in clamping engagement wit the hair.

6. A hair-waving device comprising a pair of trough-like members constructed to fit one within the other, a yielable connection between said members at one end, and means at the opposite end of the upper member within the trough formation thereof for manipulating the same.

7 A hairwaving device comprising a pair of co-operating trough-like members, a yieldable connection between said members at one end, means at the opposite end of the upper member for locking the members together. and a cross pin upon the upper member adjacent the edges of the same whereby said member may be moved pivotally and longitudinally with respect to the lower member.

In testimony whereof Iafiix my signature.

RAMON BOVE. [n 5.] 

